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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What areas have the most prostitution?
(a) Those frequented by sailors.
(b) In the wealthier sections where men could afford to pay.
(c) Away from the police stations.
(d) In the industrial sections.

2. What did the clown hide from his neighbors?
(a) That he came from a very wealthy family.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The good money he makes.
(d) His occupation.

3. When did the one homeless shelter open?
(a) During the summer months only.
(b) From 7 to 8 pm nightly during the winter.
(c) Every night of the year.
(d) When temperatures dropped below freezing.

4. To what does Nemyng attribute the spread of vice in Europe?
(a) The advent of new social mores among the young.
(b) The French Revolution.
(c) The establishment of so many splinter groups from the Catholic church.
(d) He has no idea what is the cause.

5. On the average, how many tracts did each person accept when they were being handed out?
(a) 1 or 2.
(b) 3.
(c) None.
(d) 5.

6. What does the author say happens to a young girl lured away from home?
(a) She was wrongfully held by pimps until her father pays a hostage fee.
(b) She thought she was going to be a nanny.
(c) She thought she was going to get married.
(d) She was kidnapped into prostitution.

7. What was one thing the London City Mission did?
(a) Watched that people were not taxed unfairly.
(b) Told the police when there was crime in an area.
(c) Helped the merchants to keep track of vagrants who steal.
(d) Went door to door and read scripture.

8. What did cab drivers sometimes do that was illegal?
(a) Charged more than allowed by regulation.
(b) Started the meter on the way to pick someone up.
(c) Started the meter halfway through the trip and pocket the difference.
(d) Employed unlicensed cab drivers for a portion of the day.

9. What were the street folk families like?
(a) Often comfortable financially or even wealthy.
(b) Most of them do not even know who their parents are.
(c) They pretty much ran the gamut, but generally very poor.
(d) They were often families that worked at the lowest echelons of society, such as chimney sweeps.

10. What does Mayhew say separates animals from plants?
(a) The force of breath.
(b) The necessity of finding food.
(c) Mobility.
(d) Nothing.

11. What does Mayhew say is difficult or impossible?
(a) To write a book that is fair to those who are morally defective.
(b) To write a book that fails to cover the morally deficient.
(c) To catalogue all the various ways to earn a living.
(d) To catalogue all the various ways to turn criminal.

12. How are Irish families described by Mayhew?
(a) As sloe-eyed teetotalers.
(b) As filthy, diseased, lazy but grateful beggars.
(c) As the unfortunate recipients of unwarranted prejudice.
(d) As drunken oafs.

13. What did the fire eater have to do once to win five shillings on a bet?
(a) Jump into the Thames River while on fire.
(b) Walk on a tightrope forty feet off the ground while eating fire.
(c) Kill a cobra with his teeth.
(d) Kill 20 rats in a cage with his teeth.

14. What did the father of the magician that Mayhew interviewed do for a living?
(a) He was a policeman.
(b) He worked in the Customs Office.
(c) He was a constable.
(d) He was a mayor of a small town.

15. How many civil servants does he cite?
(a) 20,000
(b) 500,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 42,000

Short Answer Questions

1. How did she pay for her desires?

2. How many were professors and artists?

3. Who were most of the street folk Mayhew discussed?

4. How did most street folk learn their trade?

5. What had recently become illegal in London?

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